1905 in animation explained

Events in 1905 in animation.

Films released

• March 27 - How Jones Lost His Roll (United States), the first example of stop-motion animation in American film.^[1]
• May 31 - The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog (United States), early example of cutout animation^[2]

Births

January

• January 14: Sterling Holloway, American actor (voice of Stork in Dumbo, adult Flower in Bambi, Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland, the title character in the Disney's Winnie the Pooh franchise, Kaa in The Jungle Book, Roquefort in The Aristocats), (d. 1992).^{[3] [4]}
• January 15: Allie Wrubel, American composer and songwriter (Song of the South, Make Mine Music, Melody Time), (d. 1973).
• January 17: Erdman Penner, Canadian screenwriter and producer (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Lady and the Tramp), (d. 1956).^[5]
• January 26: Charles Lane, American actor (voice of Georges Hautecourt in The Aristocats), (d. 2007).^[6]

February

• February 8: Lev Atamanov, Armenian-Russian animator and film director (The Scarlet Flower, The Snow Queen, The Key), (d. 1981).^{[7] [8] [9]}
• February 18:
  • Darrell Calker, American composer (wrote music for Walter Lantz Cartoons), (d. 1964).
  • Queenie Leonard, English actress (voice of Bird in Tree in Alice in Wonderland, Princess in One Hundred and One Dalmatians), (d. 2002).^[10]

March

• March 10: Richard Haydn, British actor (voice of the Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland), (d. 1985).^{[11] [12]}
• March 23: Paul Grimault, French animator and film director (Le Roi et l'oiseau), (d. 1994).^{[13] [14] [15]}
• March 26: Larry Morey, American lyricist and screenwriter (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1971).^[16]
• March 31: Robert Stevenson, British-American screenwriter and film director (Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks), (d. 1986).

May

• May 3: Dick Kelsey, American film director and theme park designer (Walt Disney Company), (d. 1987).
• May 4: Mátyás Seiber, Hungarian-English composer (Animal Farm, A Short Vision), (d. 1960).^[17]
• May 5: Floyd Gottfredson, American cartoonist, apprentice animator and in-betweener (Walt Disney Animation Studios, Mickey Mouse comic strip), (d. 1986).^{[18] [19]}

June

• June 5: John Abbott, English actor (voice of Akela in The Jungle Book), (d. 1996).^[20]
• June 14: Arthur Davis, American animator and film director (Charles B. Mintz, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Walter Lantz, Hanna-Barbera, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises), (d. 2000).^{[21] [22] [23] [24] [25]}
• June 16: Leslie Denison, English actor (voice of the judge and a weasel in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, narrator in Donald's Diary), (d. 1992).
• June 25: Mary Livingstone, American actress and comedienne (voiced herself in The Mouse That Jack Built), (d. 1983).^[26]

July

• July 8: Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator and animation director (Black and White, The Grey Neck, Thumbelina), (d. 1997).^{[27] [28] [29] [30]}

August

• August 2: William Pomerance, American animator (Walt Disney Studios), (d. 1995).^{[31] [32] [33]}
• August 21: Friz Freleng, American animator and cartoonist (Looney Tunes, The Pink Panther), (d. 1995).^{[34] [35] [36] [37] [38]}
• August 29: Al Taliaferro, American comics artist and animator (Walt Disney Animation Studios, Donald Duck comic strip), (d. 1969).^[39]

September

• September 3: Eric Larson, American animator (Walt Disney Company), (d. 1988).^[40]
• September 12: Cornett Wood, American animator and lay-out artist (Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Cartoons), (d. 1980).^{[41] [42] [43]}
• September 18: Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, American comedian and actor (voiced himself in The Mouse that Jack Built, Bobby Joe Mason in Harlem Globetrotters and The New Scooby-Doo Movies), (d. 1977).^{[44] [45] [46]}

October

• October 7: Andy Devine, American actor (voice of Friar Tuck in Robin Hood), (d. 1977).^[47]
• October 10: Laverne Harding, American animator and comics artist (Walter Lantz, Hanna-Barbera, DePatie-Freleng, Looney Tunes, Filmation), (d. 1984).^{[48] [49] [50] [51] [52]}

November

• November 19:
  • Eleanor Audley, American actress (voice of Lady Tremaine in Cinderella and Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty), (d. 1991).^{[53] [54] [55] [56] [57]}
  • Roy Seawright, American special effects maker and animator (Babes in Toyland, One Million B.C.), (d. 1991).^[58]
• November 28: Mary Moder, American voice actress (voice of Fiddler Pig in Disney's Three Little Pigs shorts), (d. 1993).

December

• December 25: Ann Ronell, American composer and lyricist (co-wrote Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf), (d. 1993).

External links

• Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb

Notes and References

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3. News: Sterling Holloway, Actor, 87, Is Dead – Voice of Pooh Bear. The New York Times. Associated Press. November 24, 1992. September 11, 2016.
4. Web site: Marker Monday: Sterling Holloway, 1905-1992 . Georgia Historical Society . 2018-04-23 . 2024-01-04.
5. Web site: Erdman Penner. 2021-03-24. Discogs. en.
6. Web site: Click here to view the tribute page for CHARLES LANE. funeral-notices.co.uk.
7. Web site: Lev Atamanov one of the foremost Soviet animation film directors :: people :: Russia-InfoCentre. Russia-ic.com. 6 November 2021.
8. Book: Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Peter Rollberg. Rowman & Littlefield. 2009. US. 978-0-8108-6072-8. 66–67.
9. Web site: Russian animation in letters and figures Films "A STORY ABOUT A WHITE BULL-CALF" . 2022-11-23 . www.animator.ru.
10. News: Oliver . Myrna . Queenie Leonard, 96; Cabaret Singer Appeared in Films . 13 October 2020 . Los Angeles Times . 29 January 2002 . 9. Newspapers.com.
11. News: Staff. Body of Actor Richard Haydn Found in His Palisades Home. 14 December 2017. Los Angeles Times. April 26, 1985.
12. Book: Wilson. Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.. 2016. McFarland. 9781476625997. 326. 14 December 2017. en.
13. Web site: Le site Internet officiel des Films Paul Grimault. www.paulgrimault.com. August 2, 2020.
14. http://www.paulgrimault.com/PG-Filmographie.pdf
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16. Web site: Auteurs - Près de 800 paroles de chansons de Walt Disney ! . 2021-03-29 . 2016-01-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160123142521/http://www.chansons-disney.com/2.html . dead .
17. Web site: Mátyás Seiber . Schott Music . https://archive.today/20161010200228/https://en.schott-music.com/shop/authordata/Authordata/view/id/17467/?SID=9moi01g9s9o13tlql5q9ksuo34&___store= . 10 October 2016.
18. Book: Hunter. J. Michael. Hunter. J. Michael. The Mormon Influence at Disney. 2013. Praeger an imprint of AABC-CLIO. 1: Cinema, Television, Theater, Music, and Fashion. Mormons and Popular Culture. Santa Barbara, California. 978-0-313-39167-5. 45–70.
19. Web site: San Diego Comic-Con Awards: 2000s . Comic-con.org . 2 December 2012 . 24 July 2019.
20. News: John Abbott, 90. Was English Actor . John Abbott, an actor in films, theatre and television, died on 24 May at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 90. Mr. Abbott, who was born in Britain, began his long career in show business in 1934, when he made his professional stage debut in a revival of Dryden's "Aureng-Zebe" with Sybil Thorndike. ... . . 2 June 1996 . 2 December 2014.
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23. News: Disney Wins By a Head . Mallory . Michael . 2011-07-07 . Animation Magazine.
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25. Web site: Warner Bros. Director Arthur Davis Passes. DeMott. Rick. December 5, 2018.
26. News: Mary Livingstone, Wife of Jack Benny, Dies in Calif. at 77. The Washington Post. July 1, 1983. February 21, 2022. Mary Livingstone, 77, the wife and partner in comedy of the late Jack Benny, died today at her home here, apparently of a heart attack..
27. Web site: Московские могилы. Амальрик Л.А.. www.moscow-tombs.ru. August 2, 2020.
28. Book: Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Peter Rollberg. Rowman & Littlefield. 2016. US. 978-1442268425. 45.
29. Sergei Kapkov (2006). Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation. — Moscow: Algorithm, p. 63—64
30. http://studio-mir.ru/eng/index.php?p=film&id=40 The Stars of Russian Animation. Film 5. Leonid Amalrik
31. Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2012
32. News: Testimony of Walter E. Disney before HUAC. CNN Interactive. 2008-10-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080514003423/http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/06/documents/huac/disney.html . 2008-05-14.
33. https://books.google.com/books?id=gIyH_DLYhoIC&dq=Mortimer+William+Pomerance&pg=PA173 Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons And Blacklisted Animators in America By Karl F. Cohen
34. Web site: Friz Freleng. lambiek.net.
35. Encyclopedia: Friz Freleng. Encyclopædia Britannica. January 6, 2014.
36. Book: Arnold, Mark. Think Pink: The Story of DePatie-Freleng. 2015. unnumbered pages. BearManor Media.
37. News: Animator Friz Freleng dead at 89. May 26, 1995. UPI.
38. News: 1995-05-28 . Isadore (Friz) Freleng Dies; Creator of Cartoons Was 89 . en-US . The New York Times . Associated Press . 2022-01-30 . 0362-4331.
39. Web site: Al Taliaferro; Lambiek Comiclopedia . Lambiek.net . October 27, 2018.
40. Web site: Eric Larson . D23. 29 April 2022.
41. News: 1933-09-08 . Cornett Wood Paints Pastel at Fair with May Rose Robinson as Model . 14 . The Indianapolis Star . 2022-05-26.
42. News: 1949-12-23 . Peter Page returns for village concert . 4 . Palm Springs Limelight-News . 2022-05-26.
43. News: 1980-06-04 . Lark Rise to Cornett Wood . 83 . The Los Angeles Times . 2022-05-26.
44. News: Eddie Anderson, 71, Benny's Rochester. Gravel-Voiced Comedian Noted for 'What's That, Boss?' Line Played Valet for More Than 30 Years. . Eddie (Rochester) Anderson, the gravel voiced comedian who played Jack Benny's valet for more than 30 years, died yesterday at the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 71 years old and had been under treatment for a heart ailment since December. . . March 1, 1977 . May 24, 2008 . September 25, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170925040502/http://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/01/archives/eddie-anderson-71-bennys-rochester-gravelvoiced-comedian-noted-for.html . live . (subscription required)
45. News: Died. Eddie Anderson, 71, who played the late Jack Benny's hoarse, heckling valet Rochester on radio, TV, and film for more than 30 years; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. In 1937, Anderson made what was supposed to be a one-shot appearance on the Benny broadcast; the audience loved his drollery and he became a member of the cast. Anderson constantly deflated Benny's pomposity with a high-pitched, incredulous, "What's that, boss?". Time. March 14, 1977. May 24, 2008. June 4, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080604183719/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,947282,00.html. dead. (subscription required)
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55. Web site: Meet Eleanor Audley, the Original 'Maleficent' . Zuckerman . Esther . May 30, 2014 . . March 25, 2018.
56. Web site: Eleanor Audley; Actress, Voice of Disney Characters . . November 27, 1991 . March 25, 2018.
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